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Instead of this (Schwartz is absolutely right: it is necessary to construct the reasoning thus:

— — weak attention to everyday interests
— — this was noted long ago by the s.d.-ists who were not engaged in banal fabrication of disagreements
— — quotations from No. 43 and Trotsky's analysis!) and No. 17 to rehash the Spark. This is all — the old Spark.

———f r o m   t h e s e   e x a m p l e s   d e r i v e,   t h a t   t h e   p h r a s e s   a b o u t   B o l s h e v i k s   i g n o r i n g   p r o f e s s i o n a l   s t r u g g l e   quotations from Trotsky, Axelrod, Martov, The Worker — is a fabrication and a slander (Martov in No. 77 on "circles of the majority."
p. 5. — about stunting too, it is absolutely necessary to strike out. This is utterly tactless at the present moment.

Instead of this, from the previous references, demonstrate that, you see, we, = the old Spark) always stood for the completeness of the class content of work.

p. 5—6 leave, in my opinion, but modify in the spirit of a transformation of the entire course of reasoning.

p. 8 — add from What Is to Be Done?, pp. 115—116 and especially
§ 6* If one is to speak of the relationship between economic and political struggle, then our old position must be thoroughly explained, for this is a sore question, which now cannot be merely touched upon.

p. 8 (at the end) develop in greater detail on the emptiness of the Spark. Connect with the break with committees.

Sketch: compare, you see, the new and old Spark!

p. 9 — You interpret Axelrod incorrectly. He doesn't say "only"!!
"something else" "only") Bring the original and let's argue!

One cannot give enemies weapons by interpreting them incorrectly!

p. 9 — elder and uncle — t h a t ' s   g o o d, for the finale.

p. 10 — "little enthusiasms of the Spark" strike out. This i s   i n c o r r e c t. These are not enthusiasms, but necessary repetitions of worker phrases. It is necessary to prove this necessity.

Footnotes:

1) Reference is made to: the article by Feinberg "On the Organizational Tasks of Our Party (Letter to the Editorial Board)" in No. 43 of the Spark of 14 (1) July 1903 (unsigned). The article was accompanied by an editorial note: "From the Editorial Board":

2) The article by G. V. Plekhanov "Recent Strikes, Socialism, and the Struggle for Political Freedom" in No. 47 of the Spark of 14 (1) September 1903 (unsigned). Lenin's caveat in document 2: "this is all the old Spark" notes that Plekhanov in the old Spark still appeared as a Bolshevik.

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2) Dan said: "As concerns the tone of the polemic [of the editorial board of the Spark. Ed.] with the committees..., this tone and generally the entire character of the articles on the activity of committees could not fail to reflect the circumstance that the overwhelming majority of committees had completely refused fraternal relations with the editorial board" (see Brief Report on the Assembly of Members of the RSDLP in Geneva. Published by the Party Club, 1904, p. 6).

3) See above pp. 267—268.

4) Trotsky wrote on p. 29 of his pamphlet "Our Political Tasks" (Geneva 1904): "In the process of struggle against economism, to which we counterposed 'political exposure' on every conceivable pretext, we not only thoroughly unlearned the art of leading strikes, but even began to view with suspicion the entire business of professional struggle — from the angle of doubt about its 'political reliability'."

5) The reproach against the Bolsheviks that they allegedly completely neglected economic agitation was leveled by P. Axelrod in his article "On the Question of the Source and Significance of Our Organizational Disagreements" in No. 68 of the Spark of 8 July (25 June) 1904.

6) Martov wrote in the article "On the Agenda" in No. 77 of the Spark of 18 (5) November 1904: "...The ground has been prepared by everything called 'Leninism.' Conspiratorial tendencies... a priori exclude for the party any kind of combination of 'underground' conspiratorial work with the complex business of directing any more or less open public activity of the broad masses. In those circles where the indicated conspiratorial tendencies have acquired sufficient development, there is strong disapproval toward the resolutions adopted by the II Congress on professional struggle and on factory elders."

7) In 1904 in Geneva a pamphlet by The Worker entitled "Workers and Intellectuals in Our Organizations" was published with a preface by P. Axelrod. On p. 23 the author wrote: "Economic struggle — this mighty instrument for drawing the broad mass into revolutionary struggle, was completely neglected. To this was added the very aversion to 'economics' that took hold when our committees transitioned from 'economism' to 'politics'."

8) Both in the manuscript of M. S. Olminsky's article and in Lenin's references to What Is to Be Done? have in view the Stuttgart edition of 1902. Moreover, pp. 115—116 in the 1902 edition — in Lenin's Works Vol. IV correspond to pp. 477—478, p. 86 — p. 448.

*) Olminsky cites the preface by P. Axelrod to the pamphlet by "The Worker" (see footnote 7) pp. 6 and 16.

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Lenin's letter to G. Greulick (Works Vol. VII, pp. 94—95, Lenin Miscellany V, pp. 476—484) dated 3 February 1905 was published by the Bern group of Bolsheviks under the title "Brief Outline of the Schism in the R.S.-D.R.P." with a short introduction by Lenin to the letter. In the archive of the Lenin Institute there is preserved a translation of this letter into German. This translation contains a number of editorial corrections by Lenin (they are not printed) and two remarks, printed below.

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* R E M A R K S   O N   T H E   T R A N S L A T I O N
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*February, after the 3rd, 1905. Geneva.

I.

At this place:
1) A subordinate clause without a predicate!
2) The meaning of the phrase is distorted, for the errors were made by the Iskra minority (according to the Russian text), not by the anti-Iskraists, as came out in the translation!1

II.

The Russian text is absolutely misunderstood and distorted!! We had been in doubt whether the translator knows German. Now we have begun to doubt whether he understands Russian.2

1) The remark refers to the following passage: "Then the minority of Iskrites, supported, as a result of the errors made by them, by all anti-Iskrites and the swamp, turned out to be the minority of the Congress." It was translated as: "Damals erwies sich die Minderheit der Iskrapartei, die in Folge der von sämtlichen Anti-Iskra Anhängern und den «Neutralen» gemachten Fehler, als die Minderheit des Parteitages".

2) The remark refers to the following passage: "Russian committees by an overwhelming majority (12 out of 14 committees that managed to express themselves) spoke out against this disorganizing boycott." It was translated as: "Die russischen von der Mehrheit unterdrückten Comités (von 14 konnten nur 12 ihre Meinung äussern) erklärten sich gegen diesen zu einer Desorga nisation führenden Boykots".